{"id":9200,"date":"2025-05-16T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:59:25","slug":"un-rights-chief-warns-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9200","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief warns of \u2018ethnic cleansing\u2019 in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u2019s rights chief has denounced Israel\u2019s sharp escalation of attacks in Gaza \u2014 and an apparent push to permanently displace the population \u2014 as amounting to \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest barrage of bombs \u2026 and the denial of humanitarian assistance underline that there appears to be a push for a permanent demographic shift in Gaza that is in defiance of international law and is tantamount to ethnic cleansing,\u201d Volker Turk said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, warned that a clear intensification in attacks this week raised fears the wider Israeli offensive had begun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop the clock on this madness,\u201d he said, urging all parties, including third states with direct influence, to stop the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN\u2019s rights chief has denounced Israel\u2019s sharp escalation of attacks in Gaza \u2014 and an apparent push to permanently displace the population \u2014 as amounting to \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d, AFP reports. \u201cThis latest barrage of bombs \u2026 and the denial of humanitarian assistance underline that there appears to be a push for a permanent demographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}